6 wave invites for 6 people who sign up to Dropbox using my referral code: https://www.dropbox.com/referra... (so i can get 250 more MB of free space on dropbox) :)
leave your e-mail for the invitation and first and last name of you dropbox subscription (no need to give your real name) so i can check it out
- Alessandro
"Dropbox is website that syncs your files online and across your computers." it takes only 5 second to sign up. no spam, no e-mail confirmation needed. very useful, you will love it :)
- Alessandro
But isn't the Dropbox size increasement limited to 3gb for referalls?
- Itachi
yes it is but i have 2.75gb at the moment and i can go up to 5 :)
- Alessandro
Alessandro I don't need GWave since I already have it, but I did sign up for Dropbox using your referral link :-) ... If you have anything (now or down the road) like ffffound or maybe any private torrent sites, etc.... I would love those, if not don't worry about it, was just excited to not only have dropbox but am a firm believer in referrals to others, always have been :+)
- Tim Tunnicliff
from email
That's ok Alessandro, and you're very much welcome :+) ... Btw that DropBox program is a dream machine! About the only thing I haven't figured out on it is how was I able to live without it before this?! lol ... My quota increased to 4.25GB for referring thus far, I believe the limit all together is 5.0 GB (3 max referring)..... wayyy too much :+)
- Tim Tunnicliff
from email
lol @tim, like i said, you will love Dropbox! :) yes, the limit is 5 gb and for now my quota is (only) 3.25gb! you where very fast! :)
- Alessandro
Alessandro frustrated, just give them away. Without strings.
- Wins Fern
i gave away more than 20 invitations for free. it doesn't cost anythig to give me the favor back... i don't ask you to pay, just to subscribe to a service that i (and a lot of people who tryed it) find awesome. however leave your e-mail address and i will invite you.
- Alessandro
Tks. for your offer. It is a suggestion. I have GWave http:scr.im/wfgw. If you want to help me get more space on DropBox https://www.getdropbox.com/referra.... Also try Humyo.com, GoAruna.com, mediafire.com. All are nice file storage systems with more space and bandwidth.
- Wins Fern
People are using the Selective Twitter Status application for Facebook. Anything you tweet with the hashtag #fb gets ported to Facebook as a status update. Anything you tweet without it doesn't.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
adamloving: @foursquare @DustyReagan I'm noticing the same people adopting foursquare that adopted twitter and facebook before that. a good indicator. - http://twitter.com/adamlov...
Etiquette question: Do you tip the bartender at a wedding? Assume you have no knowledge of the wedding other than you are invited to go. For example, you have no idea if the bride and groom have already paid the bartender a gratuity.
Hmm, I don't know. Usually (here at least) they seem to charge the bride and groom a % gratuity (from what I've seen).
- joey
No. They are part of the function staff. By all means chuck something in the tip jar but if they are part of the package or your function-specific, then no.
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
If the tip jar is there, the management allowed it. That means the bar staff gets paid in tips - so do it.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
In most cases, gratuity is paid as part of the catering/serving bill...I find it onerous that in such cases that we tip the bartender...as they already are receiving a gratuity
- Alex Scoble
from IM
But I asked that you assume that you don't know that, so...
- Alex Scoble
from IM
The bartender(s) at the wedding rarely see any of the gratuity money you paid the facility or catering company. That's why you tip.
- Admiral Anika
Tip at an event? Nah. Not just because, anyway. They'd have to be really nice or do something to catch my attention.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Ususally tips are included at pre-arranged events, so i do not tip. Sometimes I tip anyway - depends
- Susan Beebe
Any gratuities should be pre-arranged. Guests should not have to worry about anything but being there, eating, and socializing. If I was arranging an event, I'd specifically forbid tip jars.
- LogEx
is there a ping.fm iPhone app? Or something similar? I just want an app which I can post my status into and if there is no reception, it will hold onto it and send it when there is...abot like evernotes "pending" area on the iPhone app...
I just downloaded Nambu last night ($4.99). It supports FriendFeed, Twitter, Ping.fm, indenti.ca, laconi.ca, and others (I think). I haven't delved into it too much, yet, but at first gloss, it seems like a very promising app.
- Robert Clockedile
would love to hear more about it once uve had a play Robert
- Zee.
you can add i.ping.fm to your home screen add it works like an app...
- Tom Deeter
from twhirl
I've tried Nambu (right after they dropped the price--ghetto!) and it is pretty solid this far. I use it mainly for FriendFeed though (although the Ping UI looks pretty good.
- darnell
from Nambu
Communities like friendfeed are often not all that great for getting advice, particularly for new people who won't know who the "experts" are. Separating the wheat from the chaff can be very difficult on popular threads.
I think Alex just wants some special status, like a star next to his name that indicates that his opinions are correct, and others that disagree with him are wrong. :)
- Cristo
Mona, Twitter is easier to manage conversations because they're aren't any with Twitter. ;)
- Cristo
Not really, Jimminy. There are plenty of crackpots out there who will talk your ear off with bad info. Search for 9/11 to find out what I'm talking about.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Alex, I don't think I've used Likaholix in 4 or 5 months, didn't spend to much time tagging stuff there, because the community wasn't very big or useful.
- Jimminy
Alex, most of the challenges to getting good advice are common to online and offline communities. The excitement surrounding the experience of online information, in a word: access. But access is akin to raw materials. On the internet, social cues one can use to gauge someone's level of expertise are there, but more triangulation is required. Actually, I don't think that's a bad thing.
- Micah Wittman
I just notice conversations where someone asks "I want to buy a new x" to devolve in to huge noisefests that will cause more confusion than they resolve. This is particularly true for threads that become popular. Like when my brother asked what bike he should get. Most of the advice was just bad.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Alex, it's more like panning for gold than walking into a jewelry store, isn't it.
- Micah Wittman
And this shouldn't be taken as a complaint on my part, but rather an observation. The experts get drowned out by the uninformed.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Perhaps that's because you ask like this: "I want to buy X type of product. But please spare me any recommendations for SIMILAR PRODUCT Y. Anybody who owns SIMILAR PRODUCT Y is a jackass." Or maybe not, I don't know. :-P
- Jim Hearts FF
Hehe, Yes, Jim, sometimes it is because people ask a very general question.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Mona, the more I read your comment the more I keep laughing. It's easier to manage conversations on Twitter because there are no conversations on Twitter.
- Alex Scoble
I was just kidding, or actually paying homage to your inimitable style, Alex! I know what you mean though... I may try asking my next such question on twitter and see if, as Mona says, it's easier to manage.
- Jim Hearts FF
Alex, regarding those high comment count WHAT SHOULD I BUY threads — it may be because a semi-celebrity is asking the question in which case there's a flood of response due to 'Maybe this person I'm a fanboi of will notice me' instead of I am grounded in this subject and will now state the a case for X. But I could be wrong. :)
- Micah Wittman
I respect the fact that it suits Mona's usage model, even it I don't understand it.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
The best way to get good advice here (or in any discussion forum) is to come prepared with as detailed information as you can about the question you want to ask, what you have already investigated or tried and what your situation is. One of the problems with FF (Twitter is even more dismal) is that it limits the detail you can go into in presenting information and asking your question....
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- Brian Sullivan
How do you identify experts? How do you get confirmation that they are experts? Even as experts they are often wrong. How do you get resolution from them when they give bad advice?
- CW™
Only way to be sure the information your getting is correct, is to 1. check their sources & past information giving (References) 2. Do your own research and get other expert suggestions. If they gel up then your probably good to go. "Probably" If the experts information doesn't pan out then you need not listen to them again.
- CW™
One post-mortum complication to acting upon argument/suggestion/guidance: People too easily formulate that a bad experience was caused by the therefore bad advice—One word: Correlation.
- Micah Wittman
@Alex.. Mr Alex, 9/11 is a controlled demolition, per IRREFUTABLE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE. I mean, do i understand the meaning of these words?? Those towers exploded and pulverized with the speed of 10 floors per second, close to the speed of free fall. ..Nanothermite high military explosive was found on the site .... and, have you seen the footage in TV? pictures? ... so, if you like it or...
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- Petr Buben
Petr Buben proves my point. A person who knows nothing about scientific evidence, nor about building demolitions, nor about the structural properties of steel...how do I know this? It's evident in his comments.
- Alex Scoble
And this was not a thread about 9/11 either, yet here he is proving my point.
- Alex Scoble
LMAO This thread is now 2x as funny as it should be, "Twitter is a great conversation tool" & now someone backs up Alex on the 9/11 thing by provided an example of what he was talking about.
- Jimminy
Yeah, too many looney toons in the world.
- Alex Scoble
too many? That sounds like your Anti-Looney Toons.
- CW™
*snatches needle off the record* What the hell happened here?
- Derrick
I'm anti-people who are ignorant/crazy. I'm not anti Looney Toons, the cartoons that starred Bugs Bunny and friends.
- Alex Scoble
The problem I have with using friendfeed as a place to get advice is a near 100 percent lack of responses to any messages I post. I'd do just about as well writing my questions on a piece of paper, then burning it and flushing the ashes. A site like Yahoo Answers would be more likely to produce some kind of result. I'd probably do better to ask for advice on something like "What kind of canned soup is best?" or some such off the wall question in the Second Life Resident Answers forum than here.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
@SuezanneC Baskerville perhaps more people need to subscibe to you so your posts are seen by a wider audience?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from fftogo
SuezanneC, I've been answering your questions, but I've been burning the answers and flushing them down the toilet.
- Cristo
In my case, friendfeed has been more of absorbing information rather than querying and getting the desired information. It is just like the fixed menu in the restaurant. But this all depends on person to person.
- ashish
I think reddit is the best place for getting advice. It's horrible advice, but it's always hysterical. I spend way too much time on the /askreddit section
- shaun mclane
it's a constant source of inspiration for me. Once saw someone post, "Intergalactic planetary." That was it. The comments that followed ended up finishing the entire beastie boys song...line by line. Classic!
- shaun mclane
Alex is channeling Keen. This thread is hillarious!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Let's all ditch FriendFeed and go over to that other site where everybody can always tell good advice from bad.
- Bruce Lewis
IRL, supplemented by online information from relatively objective sources, tends to work pretty well.
- LogEx
Agree with Cristo (way up at the beginning) - twitter conversations are few and far between and maybe involve one or two back and forths. Might just be my particular group, but I find other venues better for conversation. Any venue is tough if you are new or can't hit people's radars.
- Martha
I have a better TV than you, Chris...have fun with that fact while you are cracking jokes. And even if you buy the 65" Panasonic V10, I'll still have a better TV than you.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Alex, I haven't bought a new TV in 5 years, but when we finish remodeling I'm sure it will be fun having that argument.
- Cristo
Since you'll be buying plasma, my statement will still stand.
- Alex Scoble
Unfortunately, you now think that you have the best TV ever made, and it would be hard to convince you otherwise regardless of what TV I might buy. I'm pretty sure it will have a better picture though, because I plan to use Monster cable.
- Cristo
No, I have a TV better than any plasma. Take that fact to the bank, home theater expert.
- Alex Scoble
Alex, are there better TVs than the one you bought? If so, what are they? On the plasma argument, there are still a lot of actual home theater experts that would disagree with you. Maybe you should quit your job and make money doing that instead.
- Cristo
Mitsubishi LaserVue is supposed to be better, having never seen one, I cannot testify as to the accuracy of that statement though. There are no "experts" that would disagree with me, because it's a false statement that invalidates expert status.
- Alex Scoble
I like TVs that I can see even if I'm not sitting directly in front of them. LCD=FAIL. <I am just rousing rabble, now...>
- Kevin Pedraja
LaserVue. lol. I like my steaks thick, but not my TVs.
- Cristo
I like TVs that don't give me headaches, don't have less sharp picture, and that don't have phosphor blurring motion artifacts. Plasma=Fail
- Alex Scoble
from IM
And I can sit on the side of my TV and it still looks fine. LCD=SUCCESS!
- Alex Scoble
from IM
And that's the problem. Most people are discussing TVs based on 5 year old knowledge. There's no contest between new LCDs and plasmas...the LCDs are just better.
- Alex Scoble
LCDs are good for really small rooms where you don't have to view from an angle. I've heard Alex only has one chair in his living room, and he asks Cassie to leave when he's playing an intense game on Xbox so there wont be any distractions.
- Cristo
Hey, Chris, stop making up nonsense. It makes you look like a complete dillhole.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Plus, Alex loves LG. Everything in his house is from LG, including a refrigerator that has Internet on it so he knows what the weather will be that day. No ice maker though. :(
- Cristo
This thread is squarely back on rails now. Good save.
- Micah Wittman
I normally welcome people when I get over 10-15 followers .. but only say "Welcome followers.. Enjoy stalking me"
- Tyler (Chacha)
I'm with Raoul. I'd have to unfollow, and I do not unfollow. Then again, I go to Twitter so rarely, and I follow so many that I might not notice.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Well, you guys do understand that it's all totally automated, so there's no work involved. I think it's an excellent way to piss off your other followers on Twitter.
- Michael Forian
Its a quick way to get rid of everyone following you, thats for sure
- Tyler (Chacha)
There is nothing wrong with it. Its a way to expose people to other people.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Stupid. Reward should be something else.
- Robert Scoble
If you want to expose people to me, you have to tell me why they are interesting in the message. I'm not just going to go click on them.
- Tyler (Chacha)
If that's all you've got to offer, I've got no reason to follow.
- shaun mclane
although i would love it if new followers would tell me why they added me, cause it still puzzles the hell out of me!
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I think a lot of people don't have a specific reason. Maybe they found you from a friend or something. Some people just like to have a lot of voices
- Tyler (Chacha)
What shaun said. Whenever someone follows me, I go to their page to scan and see if I should follow in return. When I see an entire page that looks like what you've shared here, I tend NOT to follow that person. Why not DM them with the "welcome" message?
- Herb Hernandez
well, *there's* the use for DMs i've been looking for, if ever there was one.
- idnan
too much - no need to welcome peeps. It would be a chore for me. Chore = no fun. I wouldn't follow someone who had all that crap in their timeline either. Just engage and if you make connections, let them come naturally. NO automated DMs please!
- BEX
It's not my favorite way to thank people. It feels a little "loud" and impersonal. DM is my preference.
- Melinda Augustina
I don't like tweets about follower numbers or follower welcoming - to me they are something halfway between bragging and noise
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I don't like tweets about followers, but what I truly and completely HATE is the auto-DM "welcome." I get them and want to instantly unfollow the person who sent it.
- Joey Gibson
@gibson yeah I think I might switch that off, it seems so in genuine
- sofarsoShawn
Well, it seems a bit automatic, so that's not particularly appealing to me. But every once in a while it's handy. You see something interesting and click it and you're glad you did.
- Melinda Augustina
I agree with Melinda, it seems to be automatic. I would expect a few personal words about my blog, my tweets or somethings else.
- Birger Hartung
I don't Tweet, but I do Deviant Art and FF, as well as Bloglog.. and I try to thank people, but a lot of the time I'm too busy checking out what other exciting things there are to see. I don't know if people get angry or upset over not being thanked, but I know that I don't, I didn't even realize it was a recommended action for the longest time!
- arekayelle
Why would you thank people for following you? Do you also thank people who subscribe to your RSS feeds? They're following you because they want to see what you write. They're not your friends unless you actually know them. I'm not sure where people got the idea that Twitter was some sort of numbers contest or something, but if that's all you use it for, then why bother using it at all?
- Otto
But... You miss the best fun! Ignoring app invites
- Kristian Salonen
Actually, it would be nice if you could configure FB to only allow for things you approve of. For example, I don't want quizzes or pokes...
- Scott Paley
John: I'm just kidding (mostly) about the superpokes. The real advantage of deleting most people is your news feed gets enjoyable again!
- Robert Scoble
Robert: How many FB friends are you down to?
- Scott Paley
Scoble: If you delete everyone, who do you get yours news from?
- Manuel Mas
Isn't it better to just read a list of the people you care about it?
- Manuel Mas
I went and did some Spring-cleaning there when everyone decided the sky was falling here. Deleted a dozen or so apps, and clicked Hide->Hide [app-name] on a few that my friends were still using. Now I have a stream over there that has almost nothing but my friends posts, links, photos and comments. It's a bit like FriendFeed, except people I actually know from offline use it.
- Edward Coffey
If you used the Fan Page like FriendFeed, then it's pretty close, except for RT updates. But regular guys can't friend your user page unless you return the friend acceptance. And I see that you really don't want all that noise from listeners. So you need to use the Fan Page instead of your personal page for public conversations. The ability to choose your subscriptions, independently...
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- Keith Rowland
it's funny Scoble has gone from adding everybody to being a social network of one
- Bastard Operator From FF
Manuel: I'm not actually deleting everyone, but it sure seems that way. Already I've deleted manually about 9,000 people. Not a fun job at all.
- Robert Scoble
My mom told me that geeks are antisocial ;-)
- Sebastian
people are going to start saying "Robert doesn't want to be friends with me anymore." :(
- John Wang
John: yeah, except FriendFeed is going to remain my place to interact with a large number of people. Twitter is going to stay clean. Facebook is for people I've hung out with in real life.
- Robert Scoble
So everything ends up in FriendFeed. IOW all the other services are obsolete. Right?
- Sebastian
I only use Facebook for close friends, and it works pretty well for that.
- Rob Fisher
OK Robert, so should we not bother with your Facebook Fan Page? You just using FB for your personal friends?
- Keith Rowland
I'm down to 2450 friends and still deleting. So I've deleted more than half (and I already went through 5,500 who couldn't get into my friend account and deleted most of those too).
- Robert Scoble
You're deleting these from your personal FB account, not your fan page?
- Keith Rowland
The page I see for RS on FB has over 10,000 fans.
- Keith Rowland
None of the people I know on Facebook is also on Friendfeed, it is like two completely different worlds
- Asgeir
Asgeir, yeah me too, it seems all my family and church friends are non-geeks. Which means of course I'm the go to guy when technology fails.
- Keith Rowland
Keith, same here :) Every time I am visiting family or a friend there is usually something that needs fixing
- Asgeir
I'm a huge Facebook fan for keeping in touch with friends & family. It's good for that.
- Alex Knight
Robert you got the personal profile page locked up pretty good, can't even get to it, just reverts back to my home page.
- Keith Rowland
Keith: according to my settings it's open to everyone. All settings set to as open as possible. Weird.
- Robert Scoble
Now it's working, I swear it didn't :-)
- Keith Rowland
It comes up fine now, so I'll leave you to your pruning process. I'm not a personal friend, so I'll just watch the Fan Page. BTW, loved the impromptu interview with Paul, thanks for that! I feel a little safer investing time here on FF.
- Keith Rowland
I'll do the same to see if I begin to like it too.
- Caio Cesar
Robert, you could just delete all your game apps... Which of course, you already know. I can see the benefit of deleting people from your Twitter account, but since FB is a closed system, I don't see the benefit of deleting people from your Facebook.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
Robert's new answer to everything is delete delete delete.
- Rob Cairns
Ughh, are you sure you're not on FriendFeed's payroll, what happened to your "Roach Motel" analysis we all know Facebook sucks.
- sofarsoShawn
sofarsoShawn: Facebook still sucks for people like me who want to be totally public but they are opening up. That has nothing to do with my shift in how I am approaching these things, though.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Oh great the FaceBook unfollowing saga begins Maybe they will ave to sell to shut you up LOL
- RetiredTeacherD
Scoble so by deleting everyone and isolating yourself in a social network is the answer? NO. Could you please explain where your approach comes from, I'm confused or are you just joking?
- sofarsoShawn
I'm a fan of the "add 98% of your friends to a list and then disallow that list from seeing frickin' anything" approach.
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
Brett, can you use lists to affect the visibility of newsfeed items? I thought I saw something in the RWW facebook guide that said you could only use them to control the visibility of parts of your profile. Maybe I just got the wrong impression. I'm going to have to explore Facebook someday.
- Bruce Lewis
FB has gone bad I'd rather goto brightkite
- Ray H
I have never accepted a friend request from stranger on my Facebook right from the beginning i made the account. FB is for my relatives only. Friendfeed is more open,, in fact i have no "real" friend here. i like it;p
- zʍıɔ
First Twitter, then Facebook. The great Robert Scoble unfollow saga continues... Me, I've been accepting friend requests from FF people (I always request they tell me they're from FF so I know). I have 4 separate groups for friends, FF people, and both sides of my family. But I'm nowhere near overwhelmed...
- Dennis Jernberg
I don't presume to add someone in Facebook (or LinkedIn) that I don't know IRL unless the person specifically encourages people to add him/her on that service. For example, Chris Brogan and I are linked on LinkedIn, but I'd never presume to ask him for a recommendation.
- John E. Bredehoft
So it's the return of the Great Unfollow.
- Morton Fox
Doing that on FriendFeed. Sick of the self important, self promoting spammers here.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
You can block apps like superpoke from contacting you... That doesn't bother me too much. It's the quiz app that can't be blocked, because it's really an app generator. Every new quiz becomes its own facebook app automatically, and you can't block them all. Annoying, that is...
- Otto
from iPhone
It's more than deleting everyone, deleting all the FB features would help too. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
why do u think so ? facebook is so enjoyable . the more the merior ;) just try to like it the way it is
- Viva Vida
Lists (feed) filter the noise and deliver specific news on family, co-workers, industry contacts, vendors, etc
- Susan Beebe
Robert, is Facebook having connection problems this morning?
- Shari Weiss
You may look back on this purging of human capital as the darkest day of your social life. How many people did you alienate in one day? Must be a record of some kind! Congratulations! Sorry you will no longer be privy to my astute insights back at the mothership. It would have been better to be more selective to begin with, but alas, you were bombarded with requests. The price of fame, I suppose. Cheers!
- david beckwith
Social media without people....hmmmmm this is a different concept or approch and I wonder what the benefits are. Anyone care to share?
- Jeunelle Foster
Jeunelle. No spam. No noise. No trolls. No SEO experts. Lots of benefits!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Ahhh well in that case I'm all for it, besides the people that I have in my friendlist now at FB I can't stand. lol :)
- Jeunelle Foster
I'm still trying to find my one home on the web. Sometimes it's FB, sometimes it's Twitter, sometimes it's FF.
- Adam
Exactly why can't someone create 1 with the positive benefits of all 3?
- Jeunelle Foster
Instead of having to go to the 50 or so social networks I'm a member of, I want those networks to come to me. I want a single page (my blog or home page) I can host myself, working in both directions. Yes, I can pull things, using rss feeds or widgets, and I can push things, using services such as ping.fm, but I want all that to happen "at home". I want things people post elsewhere,...
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- Irma Vermaat
I leave the games up & ignore my 812 pending requests. Sometimes it is cool to throw sheep or play tic-tac-toe with an old college classmate (who's now a history professor), and an occassional event is cool (although nowhere near as nice as tribe.net). It's REALLY easy to ignore requests.
- Mitchell Tsai
Bruce - You can include/exclude individual people from your News Feed. Works very well for prolific people who post stuff that doesn't interest me 99% of the time. Possible strategy (which I don't use) (1) friend everyone who asks (2) put "followers" in a "don't appear on my NewsFeed" group. I like to see everyone on my NewsFeed. How else will I get to know new people?
- Mitchell Tsai
I make everything on my page public - except my home phone (friends only). Luckily, I don't have a boss or corporation or sticky political situation to navigate. I consider anything Facebook/FriendFeed-private-room/LinkedIn/web potentially public info. Anything private should be over the phone or in person (and even the phone is scanned for keywords). Even an e-mail that says "let's...
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- Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell, that sounds useful, but what I really was curious about was restricting visibility of my own items. On FriendFeed I put tech stuff on my home feed for public consumption, but family doings are in a private group. I'd like to use FB the same way if possible. As for getting to know new people, on FF I have a "followers" group that I check every so often, while keeping the noise level on my home feed tolerable.
- Bruce Lewis
Bruce - Sound like the two users (if you don't get caught by Facebook) approach is cool - It's been proposed as "alternate personas" (maybe Bruce Lewis & Bruce X Lewis) - one of my friends Brian Tung also went as Byron Tung (tribute to Byron the writer). A fan page is another possibility, but not everyone at Facebook has fan pages, so it doesn't work as well as FriendFeed's one-directional links.
- Mitchell Tsai
I made a "Chat" group, and only added a few friends that I don't mind chatting with. Then, I configured chat to only show that list....the upside? Everyone else sees me as offline. Simple but effective!
- shaun mclane
I merely created a second "personal" profile. That way I can keep my 5000 followers. Only actual friends will be added to my personal profile. Is that a violation of the terms of service?
- Leo Laporte
Delete everyone, and block the annoying applications from appearing in your news stream. Agreed.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Even better: Come to FF and complain about how terrible it is to have your news stream flooded with stuff from friends. So terrible.
- Fleagle
"Horse Piss Beer on Flickr" an interesting result.
- Dean Clark
Dean: yeah there are some fun results there, huh?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
That's what will suck it everyone moves to facebook as friendfeed's features get integrated, there is pretty much no Google Juice on Facebook. Too many privacy barriers...things might change though.
- Steven (optionshiftk)
Like many other people, I think best route is for friendfeed to go Open Source. Then we could keep it going.
- Steven (optionshiftk)
This is fleeting. Google always rushes to over-index the vogue site of the day. they did this at one point with myspace profiles, then youtube comments, etc .. http://bit.ly/DoFQI
- Derek Pangallo
I'm not going anywhere. You'll have to share the google kool aid with me.
- shaun mclane
The majority of those types of celebrities though just want to say something themselves. They are not interested in listening to anyone saying anything back. Sadly, for the good few we inherited once Demi had said Hi :)
- 1x29
Scoble will quit tweeting about it.
- Photar
from iPhone
What a concept! I'd like to send you a list of things to declare dead ...
- Bill Brandon
from Nambu
I guess you really don't like that Facebook bought the company.
- jef
Meryn: I had 46,000 followers here before I declared it dead. How many does a service require to be "born?"
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
By using FF, is Robert Scoble actually declaring it undead? Does that make it a zombie service? FF of the Living Dead...
- RobinDotNet
from iPhone
jef: Facebook is a great company but if more than 1/10th of the team is actively working on FriendFeed in four weeks I will give $50 to the American Red Cross.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
For those that don't get it, commenting on one thread is like being all together talking and chatting about a set topic/thread [well, it is to me, anyway :)]. Saying you 'don't get it' is like walking into a group of people talking in a cafe (no coffee here though) and asking what on earth is going on. We're just talking :)
- 1x29
Robin: remember what it means when a blogger declares something dead.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
It's....dead? So we're wandering the FF mall looking for brains (and LOLcats)?
- WorldofHiglet
Robert, do you mean 1/10th of the FF team, or 1/10th of the FB team?
- RobinDotNet
from iPhone
What if Facebook starts to promote it and it gets millions of users, then what? hmmmmmm
- Stephen Pickering
Steve Gillmor declared Microsoft Office dead and it went onto make billions more dollars.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Heh: the iPhone misspells Gillmor. I fixed the spelling but now I know why everyone adds an "e" onto it.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
making money and being dead are mutually exclusive
- Steve Gillmor
The *idea* of FF is not dead though. The ability to do what we can here is ALWAYS going to be required. The set up here is the closest thing we have on the internet that replicates just talking to a group of your friends. But it affords you the opportunity to get in on conversations globally on whatever interests you.
- 1x29
I believe he Steve also said RSS was dead..He likes to call things dead doesn't he? :)
- Bill Heslin
Well, I think it's dead too. At least, it never became very popular as much as Twitter, did it?
- jef
we can use the health care savings to treat twitter addicts
- Sherry Reynolds
Stephen: The problem I have with FB taking it is all the rubbish you'll no doubt get packaged with it. FF is so clean. No poking. No pointless gifts. No adopt an imaginary something. No signing up for a 3rd party app just to see what someone sent you (even if it was sent without their knowledge :))
- 1x29
Steve, will it be integrated into Facebook, and as Robert said, no one actively working on the stand alone site, or do you think the stand alone site will continue to get better?
- Stephen Pickering
jef: I get more engagement here than on Twitter and I have gotten many times more new followers here this week than on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
What the hell is wrong with you Robert? FriendFeed is still ticking away; you have no association with it and therefore no right to voice its status.
- Mitch
Lots of people became aware of it because Facebook bought it
- Stephen Pickering
jef: Twitter already and fundamentally lacks the benefits of FF though. It's might have more *users* but it's pretty much reached it's purpose already.
- 1x29
I should have clearly pointed "RSS". I wasn't referring to FriendFeed.
- jef
Twitter's design almost ensured 40% of tweets would be pointless. FF comments by definition are only as pointless as the conversation itself. It is inevitable that a FF type service will eclipse a twitter type service.
- 1x29
jef: my favorite Tweets come here via RSS. Both are definitely dead!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
He's more like Beelzebub to me in the matter of FriendFeed. I mean "Zuckerberg".
- jef
Mark Zuckerberg = Jesus and/or Beelzebub .....Stephen Pickering & jef.... hahahahaha
- Jeunelle Foster
40.5% of tweets are pointless babble. what is the ratio of comments on this thread?
- Sherry Reynolds
Well, I'm quite a Twitter guy. But, yeah, RSS is definitely dead or dying.
- jef
we are exercising the power of social media, even if it's pointless
- Jeunelle Foster
FriendFeed couldn't get traction. They've married some folks who know how to get traction. And Facebook's married some folks who know how to do real time. Both services will benefit, and so will the "users" or "sharecroppers"
- Stephen Pickering
If RSS weren't dead why would Dave WIner be rebooting it? If Office isn't dead why would MS be moving to the cloud?
- Steve Gillmor
feels like I'm being mocked here, but what the hell? ;)
- jef
Who's doing the mocking? I rebuke them in the name of Jesus
- Jeunelle Foster
not mocking you, follow the thread. Pickering asked whether Office in cloud will be Office, I said not until it has a micromessage reader.
- Steve Gillmor
I'm too drunk for this thread. *forms conga line* <-----srsly on FriendFeed in club at anime convention!!! XD
- CannonGod
from iPhone
The whole "RSS is dead" is a broad sweeping statement positioned to get a rise, and meaningless without context. Why? How? What exactly does that mean "RSS is dead" Its usefulness serves people, then its very much alive.
- Benjamin Taylor
Well, I said "RSS is dead" in a view point of consumer. Do you know anyone what RSS means or does?
- jef
the context defines the meaning. It means that RSS has moved from a disruptive technology to a mature one, and is now being disrupted in turn by micromessaging
- Steve Gillmor
Makes complete sense, in that context. I had a different understanding of the meaning behind that statement.
- Benjamin Taylor
understandable given the noise from those who want to attack the messenger
- Steve Gillmor
The best thing? It's somehow reassuring to see just how passionate the FFish subset of folks is about community.
- Kathy Fitch
yes Kathy, by contrast FF continues to disrupt, and particularly a willing Facebook.
- Steve Gillmor
Just made the original comment because of the "dead" thing in Robert's post and your RSS is dead comment from awhile back was the first thing that came to mind. I'm actually glad I said it now, because I understand your position on that comment much more now Steve. And btw, is there plans for Gillmor Gang to come back, or has it come back already and I just missed it? Thanks
- Bill Heslin
WIll have something to say about that RSN Bill
- Steve Gillmor
Is RSS a zombie now? or is it still too early to tell... by the way, dead = no productivity innovation happening, imho
- Alberto Saavedra
from Nambu
BTW, what kind of understanding did you have on "RSS is dead", Ben? Just out of curiosity.
- jef
Steve: Nothing. I was asking Robert :) Its news to me that he said that. I think this is the early adopter's early adopter's view.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Robert didn't declare FF dead in the title to this post. He's giving a list of implications of it being "declared dead by Scoble." It's a subjunctive use of the phrase - something imagined, a thought experiment.
- Nick in Manila
Ah. Right. I think there is life in the old girl yet....
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
9. You can move back in with your blog. Ya'll can get married and live happily ever after.
- Stephen Pickering
That is good... Robert's back to blogging thing didint last very long....
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
not dead, but honnestly it will make some return to coding and this is good.
- abdellah
So RSS is dead, Twitter is about to be pronounced dead, and Robert Scoble is declaring FriendFeed "dead". What would we have then?
- jef
Blogging. Which, really? Also dead. I think all we have left is wikis, email, and cocktail napkins.
- Sean Gallagher
Honestly. Declaring something "dead" because it doesn't have that new-car-smell anymore, and somebody's trying to, heaven forbid, *commercialize it* is just a sign of tech-ADD. CORBA was supposed to be dead, but it's still alive. COBOL was supposed to be dead, but MicroFocus is still making money. Hell, even DOS isn't dead, or filesharing, or the music industry, or old media. They just don't have that magical infinite potential of the blank piece of paper anymore.
- Sean Gallagher
Punch cards are a valid storage format. I bet I could do RSS on punchcards.
- Sean Gallagher
Sean: Rss benefited at the beginning of this cycle, and it made a huge difference. This is happening now with realtime. Your last sentence would only be improved by removing the word "just." Don't know what the "commercialized" reference means, nothing wrong with any of this making money. Oh and the music industry -- that's just plain dead.
- Steve Gillmor
:-))First time that I can enjoy the dead ,Today I checked the new tools of Google reader and they are doing well ,,, Wave is coming and we can all feel it
- Johni Fisher
"the last time the music industry died, the Beatles showed up - Steve Gillmor " I'm ready for the Beatles!! Bring 'em on!
- Amy Flynn
wondering when gwave is going to be dead
- Jim Posner
Ashton, Oprah and Ellen will finally sign up.
- Erik Boles
Ellen would be cool...keep the other two....lol
- Bill Heslin
Jim, it needs to be alive first :-) so, anytime after October or whenever KISS apps arrive to Wave platform
- Alberto Saavedra
Zombies, says @RobinDotNet? We have ways of dealing with zombies, both on a computer system and in real life. (wonder if the new Tron remake will have zombie processes...)
- Don Faulkner
from BuddyFeed
Declaring it dead means we all feel sorry for it, and use it all the more! (resurrection syndrome)
- Sandra Large
10: Scoble no longer has to pretend that his "followers" are "friends". Facebook will make it so.
- Phil Calvin
It is far from dead. But we will not get all the Bots and the security issues that Twitter has
- Rob Cairns
Hey I wanna Sue FacePOOP fer Giving me da Boot! Can U recommend a Razor Sharp Lawyer!!
- Billy Warhol
i stopped recommending friendfeed. This place is just way too cool to share it with others ;)
- Sascha Pallenberg
a collapse into FB by FF beyond feature cherry picking would seem rather myopic... think FB Labs to foil Google Labs and push leading edge adoption that is a safe distance from the close fisted FB silo -- sizzle and promise at a controlled feature grafting rate
- Jay Cuthrell
from BuddyFeed
There there................no stop.......please............ look you are getting me started.......sniff...............now come on stop.................sob.......................and so on........
- Kevin J Hatton
1. SHOCK & DENIAL - You will probably react to learning of the loss with numbed disbelief. You may deny the reality of the loss at some level, in order to avoid the pain. Shock provides emotional protection from being overwhelmed all at once. This may last for weeks.
- CannonGod
2. PAIN & GUILT - As the shock wears off, it is replaced with the suffering of unbelievable pain. Although excruciating and almost unbearable, it is important that you experience the pain fully, and not hide it, avoid it or escape from it with alcohol or drugs. You may have guilty feelings or remorse over things you did or didn't do with your loved one. Life feels chaotic and scary during this phase.
- CannonGod
3. ANGER & BARGAINING - Frustration gives way to anger, and you may lash out and lay unwarranted blame for the death on someone else. Please try to control this, as permanent damage to your relationships may result. This is a time for the release of bottled up emotion. You may rail against fate, questioning "Why me?" You may also try to bargain in vain with the powers that be for a way out of your despair ("I will never drink again if you just bring him back")
- CannonGod
4. "DEPRESSION", REFLECTION, LONELINESS - Just when your friends may think you should be getting on with your life, a long period of sad reflection will likely overtake you. This is a normal stage of grief, so do not be "talked out of it" by well-meaning outsiders. Encouragement from others is not helpful to you during this stage of grieving. During this time, you finally realize the...
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- CannonGod
5. THE UPWARD TURN - As you start to adjust to life without your dear one, your life becomes a little calmer and more organized. Your physical symptoms lessen, and your "depression" begins to lift slightly.
- CannonGod
6. RECONSTRUCTION & WORKING THROUGH - As you become more functional, your mind starts working again, and you will find yourself seeking realistic solutions to problems posed by life without your loved one. You will start to work on practical and financial problems and reconstructing yourself and your life without him or her.
- CannonGod
7. ACCEPTANCE & HOPE - During this, the last of the seven stages in this grief model, you learn to accept and deal with the reality of your situation. Acceptance does not necessarily mean instant happiness. Given the pain and turmoil you have experienced, you can never return to the carefree, untroubled YOU that existed before this tragedy. But you will find a way forward.
- CannonGod
The fun part about the Kubler-Ross stages of grief is that it isn't a linear progression, you can experience multiple stages all at once, and you can always go back to another stage even if you're already reached acceptance.
- Victor Ganata
I love that Bret, Paul, and Kevin checked in. They probably are looking at their screens and asking "what do we do now?" how about ship some new features before Facebook overlords take you off to do bigger things?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I feel sorry for all you addicts. My use of it is purely social.
- Bruce Lewis
I do like FF and use it almost every day. Wouldn't it be great if FB either left it alone so we can continue to use it as "professionals," or somehow incorporate it into a more "mature" version of FB that didn't have all the annoying, time-wasting apps, games, etc. I'd much prefer a totally customizable FF "wall."
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I think FFundercats HO!!!!! would have worked but I'm here anyways.
- Jimminy
Actively fighting addiction to anything on a daily basis, but I'm still a FriendFeed fan! (I'd have been here sooner but I've been staring at Phoebe Cates pics for longer than I realized.)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Thank you Robert Scoble to be here. :) BTW is this looks interesting for FF replacement? : http://streamy.com/ ? May be... I'll try it to see. :)
- Claude LaFrenière
Why should I? Whats in it for me? You doing some sort of survey of people to send out the police to do a "Safety Check" on when the site is shutdown?
- CW™
here. anecdote: a friend of mine just signed up for FF this evening. apparently the FriendFeed hype of the last 24 hours pushed him over the top. leaves me wondering whether FF has actually gained users today?it would be a crafty way of marketing the service. I'll wake up tomorrow to discover that there was a problem with the paperwork and the FriendFeed team have had a change of heart.
- JSLeFanu
from BuddyFeed
Count me in even though I was just starting to get hooked. I guess it's time to find a rehab and get all sobered up until the next relapse with some other new addiction. Isn't life grand?
- Usman Bashir
oh hey, look, the added an "add comment" link to the end of the comment list. Huzzah!
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
++Jay. I was going to do the same thing yesterday but I didn't want to pay the money.
- David Cook
David -- this was a $9.95 session but you can get them for $7.95 and there are also 25% off coupons if you do online check-in prior to your Delta flight. That's an incentive for folks to use that service and offload kiosk use at the terminals. Very savvy marketing by the folks at GoGo and Delta combined.
- Jay Cuthrell
well, it's 12:12 a.m. and I'm perusing FF from my iPhone via BuddyFeed before turning in. so yeah, I guess I count. "Here!" (raises hand)
- Don Faulkner
from BuddyFeed
I recommend FF to some of my clients, and there are some companies and nonprofits with presences here—not like Twitter, but I'll be curious how that will be affected when FB takes over more. Most have FB fan pages, groups and/or causes, too.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Yeah, me too. I just saw the request to have a comment link at the bottom of the comments from one of your friends just yesterday and here it is. I'd say they are listening. Thanks FF.
- Keith Rowland
И так чятег, пока Скобл не поговорит с нами представителями СовиетФрендфидика, все мои записи теперь можно читать в этом тредике. Пользуясь случае передаю Парню Бухайту и его команде большой привет, в связи с тем что [He can has sleep naw].
- ideali
превед кетаец! давай сегодня сделаем тебя счастливым!
- Махатма Бугоганди
точно! поэт, пародист, переводчик. известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
я вчера был в издательстве, с меня сведения об авторе просят. давайте, говорят, напишем, где учился, что генеральный директор. и что известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
а можно получить профессию известного блоггера? какие экзамены сдавать надо? какую специализацию лучше выбрать - микроблоггинг или аудиоподкастинг?
- Махатма Бугоганди
Один чувак пришол в чятег и говорит я известный блоггер кто тут тру на первый второй рассчитайсь. А ему говорят чувак у тебя сертификат есть что ты известный блоггер? Вот иди Зайке экзамен сдай потом приходи. А Зайка стоит такой с топором и улыбается. Щас думает счастливым его сделаю.
- Махатма Бугоганди
Я потерял интерес в данный момент. Я буду скрывать, как и любой другой. Это хромой, что вы захватили этот. Пивные правила. Спокойной ночи. :-)
- Matthew Horton
More than a friend of FriendFeed, was starting to use it as a full lifestreaming platform and loved it. It's made a whole lot of other sites make sense.
- achean
Hi, I'm Bette... I don't know if I'm an addict, but I can't stay away... I keep checking, just to see if something's new... and I cry if I get no responses to a post. Is that addictive behavior? :D
- Bette Cooper
Yup, I have blocked all the impersonators now. You will still see them, but I don't see them and they no longer can comment on any of my items.
- Robert Scoble
@scobleizer As far as I can see you have blocked not only the impersonators (who renamed themselves back the moment they found out you have a problem with this) but most of the folks who chatted there.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@meatreach yes, see next thread. Scobble becomes anti-Russian.
- Never Impersonate You
Maxatma: well, that's just too bad. I speak English. Sorry. People who don't speak English really don't have any business commenting on one of my items, except in rare cases.
- Robert Scoble
Why you, Robert Scoble, don't block users from Spain or Italy? China or arabic countries? Those users that comments on non-English languages?
- Never Impersonate You
@Robert, in fact they do speak English. But they also do make fun of Friendfeed and everything that's going on there. You can block them or take part in this fun. ;)
- Махатма Бугоганди
I prefer FF over twitter and facebook, but all my friends are on twitter and/or facebook. Maybe facebook will get it right this time now that it has acquired FF. If they simplify it a bit more without removing functionality. Then I would spend a bit more time on FB. Lets hope all goes well with the merger. If not I'm jumping ship and going over to Google Wave. oh wait, I'm going to go with Google Wave regardless! ;-)
- Captain Jack
Bu arada Russian friends Turkiye'ye selamlar gonderiyor.
- ideali
@scobleizer i can speak english and i beg you to remove bann from all russian friendfeeders, because we are all from it-community, working in internet companies and we came with peace, you asked for feedback from friendfeed addicts — we show you how really it is being frf addicts, we change names, we chat, we making things that are not serious. Why so serious? Unlock people, they are not bots, they just playing the game of real addicts and have fun. Common.
- ideali
shaun: I started this post to demonstrate that a lot of us are still here and aren't likely to leave. At least not quickly. So, life goes on after FriendFeed gets acquired by Facebook. Point proved.
- Robert Scoble
Robert He says ; Our Russian friends say to hello to Turkey
- Osman Üngür
ideali: have them send email to scobleizer@gmail.com and I'll unblock anyone who says they weren't impersonating me.
- Robert Scoble
Hector: good morning! I need coffee.
- Robert Scoble
@robert yes they (we will) stay here, I think tat the migration process will take time and after reading @Paul Bucheit, I think that what we all are trying to get even if we don't say it explicitly is to preserve a kind of intimacy (beeing a part of the Huge faceBook community) don't mean that FF community will preserve their intimacy, why should a community be a plan one, (let imagine a community as a set of sub-community) that all.
- abdellah
Wow!! So many likes and comments; is it a record Rob?
- Er-fun
@scobleizer thank you, for understanding. be cool, guys we just want have fun here a little. Take care.
- ideali
@Robert RE "I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more" - isn't it a lot of noise having 26K subscriptions and 46K subscribers on your frf account? I'm kind of surprised - you create a community that large around yourself, yet when you see a new and unusual activity you just block it right away.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@Robert, patience? Who's talking about patience? It's about curiosity, not patience. When something strange and unusual happens around you, you can either try to stop it or try to see what it can develop into. You choose to stop - and it stopped. Well, not stopped - just moved to some other place. And do you really know what it was and what it was about to bring you?
- Махатма Бугоганди
I'm here all the way from South Africa! I dig this service and I'm not quite ready to give it up. Regardless of the news about the acquisition, this remains an awesome service.
- Paul Jacobson
I'm new to ff but find more valuable information here than anywhere else!
- Janet Crance
I don't know how I rate my addiction relative to others, but I shared Hitler's reaction upon hearing the acquisition news (despite happiness for Paul and Bret)
- Chris Duffy
I'm sure this is part of Scoble's plot to poll all the people who really read his posts, and unfollow the rest. So I raise my hand.
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Just a wannabe. Not an addict (yet).
- Carole Hicks
It might also be a way for me to filter down my "following" count (diff (my followers, scoble)) are the only people I really need to follow. Those that scoble follows, I can safely unfollow and use Scoble as my social media filter :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
pardon the arrogance but it really sucks this great forum of sharing will turn into a myspace humdrum. Now I have to find another SM where first adopters and well informed techies won't haft to compete with general "noise"
- earl wallace
Well, here's a comment I can later delete and rob the owner of 1500!
- Matthew DeVries
I just mention the 1500 mark since it was such an iconic query to see... that and the 500 Likes club of FF posts. It's pretty exclusive stuff... but it's also sobering to note that the subject matter required to get to these levels isn't always a uniform mix of cares/concerns.
- Jay Cuthrell
When I heard the FaceBook news, I tried to quit FriendFeed and I couldn't... I'M HOOKED
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
i clicked the "1488 more comments" and my computer nearly exploded. and yes, i am using an amiga 500.
- jack
Now that I have instructions (thanks LouisGray) and figured out my Bookmarklet! I am LOVING the ease of use! addict - not quite...
- Robyn Hawk
Actually, I lied. I am not a die-hard friendfeed fan. I desperately want to be but have just not been able to get into a good "feeding" rhythm. Maybe I need to add some more friends
- Anant Gairola
I don't need to be addict. I'm just here, everyday, absorbing so many geeky info :D There's no place like FF
- Lysender
I'm still with ya, Robert. Whatever FB paid for FF, it wasn't enough!
- Donald C. Lindsay
New here, but learning. Tips for best use?
- Barbara Langham
@bdlangam From my perspective the #1 tip in this category is: Explore and define "best use" for yourself. Despite potential "finishing" impression of some productive consolidations in this collective-collaborative cognition space, the emergent #cognosphere is still WAY too nascent to assert anything other than initial impressions. March to the beat of your own drum; build your own...
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- michael silverton
yeah sorry, late. was at Shambhala Music Festival, I know tardy, sorry...
- sofarsoShawn
I'm getting hooked, still figuring it all out
- Michele McGraw
I think I do. Not enough contacts to make a impression.
- Michael Schlag
Anybody else think that Robert might be a little pissed he was't tipped to this? I mean he was just at the their HQ. Do you think they had a strict, "WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT TALK TO ROBERT" discussion late last week?
- Ben Hanten
Maybe, but he's been pretty good at keeping a lid on things in the past. He should have been allowed to scoop this - interviews all setup and ready to go
- shaun mclane
I would be pissed. Wait, I kind of am.
- Ben Hanten
Well, I just heard the news about FB buying FF. Sucks when you work 15 hours. Now it seems it's old news, and @scobleizer is leaving. Damn. I liked how quickly changes were being made to FF.....guess that's all gone now.
Too bad he's on the East Coast :( Shawn!! Good to see you 'round these parts again. No one anyone knows :)
- Mona Nomura
You'll be back on the east coast in no time. well, after Gnomedex is done that is. Actually, in a way, sometimes the anticipation building up makes seeing them again oh so much better.
- John Wang
Thanks Mona. I got a new job as a lot attendant at a Home Depot. So when I have energy I comment :).
- Shawn aka ringking
Is that a good change, Shawn? I always enjoy your comments when you pop in every now and then again. :)
- Mona Nomura
Of course Chris has to ruin it - he goes into my FB thread and says: "Tech support" UGH. Let me enjoy my euphoria!
- Mona Nomura
*cries* I thought I was the boy you liked.
- Sparky
from iPhone
Well I was a clerk at a blockbuster video. So labor wise it's harder. But the Blockbuster was giving me no hours. So I quit and am trying out Home Depot. They treat me great. So it's a good change :)
- Shawn aka ringking
Haha. yea. I saw that too. So wrong. I do hope you're enjoying it. You sound so happy. Such a great thing. A happy Mona is a wonderful thing. :)
- John Wang
A boy?? Did it remind of those high school nights when u would talk on the phone until the sun came up?
- Amani
Omg yes. Or how I used to dial into radio stations over and over to dedicate a slow jam to "the" boy. Hahhaha. I really really like this guy too...too bad he lives alllllllllll the way in NYC :(
- Mona Nomura
Hmm? I thought you lived in NYC as well. Did you move again?
- John Wang
Ya, I'm in Seattle for Gnomedex - then I'm either back in NYC (which makes no sense) or in SF or Seattle...haven't decided yet.
- Mona Nomura
Looks like you have a few boy fans on the east coast. ;)
- shaun mclane
from BuddyFeed
I'll play a slow jam for you and your boy on Sunday. u all could skype together too. that opens up all sorts of possibilities.
- Amani